1 00:00:01,720 --> 00:00:04,759 Johnny Mack with five good news stories. As you can imagine, coming off 2 00:00:04,799 --> 00:00:08,160 the Christmas holiday, a lot of Christmas stories out there. How about Christine 3 00:00:08,199 --> 00:00:11,759 Lily. She lives in Kyle, Texas, and she goes all out on 4 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:16,160 her Christmas decorations. Back in twenty twenty, she was getting ready to spend 5 00:00:16,239 --> 00:00:19,679 Christmas without her two children, they were both stationed on military bases. She 6 00:00:19,719 --> 00:00:23,079 says she thought back to the Christmases of her childhood in Arkansas, when her 7 00:00:23,120 --> 00:00:26,640 mother, Sandy would make gingerbread houses would stare at the house and wait for 8 00:00:26,640 --> 00:00:30,879 the day we could eat it. So she decided to turn her house into 9 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:35,600 a giant gingerbread house and a new annual tradition was born. You can imagine 10 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:39,159 this gets hundreds of visitors. Each visitor is treated to a free cup of 11 00:00:39,159 --> 00:00:42,759 hot chocolate and photos with Santa, played by Lily's husband, Robert Well. 12 00:00:42,799 --> 00:00:45,920 He says he was dubious at first, but he soon embraced it and now 13 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:49,240 eagerly greets guests and hands out candy. Lily. He has now turned this 14 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:53,399 into a larger purpose, asking visitors for canned food donations to help combat food 15 00:00:53,439 --> 00:00:57,640 insecurity in the local community. Some visitors also donate money. So if you 16 00:00:57,679 --> 00:01:02,159 look at the house here, it is totally created as a gingerbread house, 17 00:01:02,679 --> 00:01:06,319 where the molding is alongside the roof and the door frames. It's all in 18 00:01:06,359 --> 00:01:10,200 the kind of candy cane color scheme that you would see in a gingerbread house, 19 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:12,680 and the house itself is gingerbread colored. He might want to become friends 20 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:17,959 with Raymond Roberts. He recently played the lottery and his intuition told him don't 21 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:21,560 just buy one ticket, buy six, and don't use any numbers. Use 22 00:01:21,599 --> 00:01:26,200 the exact same numbers on each ticket. While the numbers came in the tickets 23 00:01:26,239 --> 00:01:30,480 were three hundred and ninety thousand dollars each. He took the lump sum for 24 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:33,319 five of the tickets. That gets some two million dollars For the six ticket. 25 00:01:33,359 --> 00:01:37,079 He chose the annuity option, so he'll get twenty annual payments of twenty 26 00:01:37,079 --> 00:01:40,159 five grand. What were the numbers? It was a combination of birthday as 27 00:01:40,159 --> 00:01:42,519 an anniversary dates. What will he do with the money. He's going to 28 00:01:42,519 --> 00:01:46,439 buy a motorcycle. Doctor Steve Loam was running the half marathon. He says, 29 00:01:46,439 --> 00:01:49,079 in the twelve years he's been a cardiologist, he's never had to give 30 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:53,239 anyone CPR outside of his shift, but during the Monterey Bay Half Marathon in 31 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:57,519 California, he had to give CPR twice. Around the third mile, Gregory 32 00:01:57,560 --> 00:02:00,000 Gonzalez fell down in front of Loam, hitting his head on the page. 33 00:02:00,519 --> 00:02:02,959 Loam immediately began to give him CPR, and after several minutes he was transferred 34 00:02:02,959 --> 00:02:07,400 to an amulets. Loam jumped back into the race, but not long after 35 00:02:07,439 --> 00:02:09,080 crossing the finish line, the same thing happened again. This time, Michael 36 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:13,000 Heilman fell to the ground, hitting his head. Loam rushed to give him 37 00:02:13,039 --> 00:02:15,599 CPR as well. Turned out, both men had blockages that led to cardiac 38 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:19,840 arrests, and they received stants in their coronary arteries. Loam, Gonzalez, 39 00:02:19,879 --> 00:02:23,560 and Hilman planned to run the half marathon together in twenty twenty three. Gonzale 40 00:02:23,599 --> 00:02:24,800 says, there's not a day that goes by where I don't have tears of 41 00:02:24,879 --> 00:02:29,240 joy, absolute joy. I'm here with the second chance at life. From 42 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:31,319 the Washington Post. A puppy was abandoned at an airport. Don't worry, 43 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:35,400 this is five good news stories. These never ended on a dark note. 44 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:38,439 Trust me here and the dog's owner left the puppy at the San Francisco International 45 00:02:38,439 --> 00:02:44,520 Airport. An international passenger had arrived from China without the proper paperwork, and 46 00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:49,520 his travel companion abandoned him at customs. The CDC had some concern about the 47 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:53,599 validity of the paperwork. Instead of straightening out the problem, the owner surrendered 48 00:02:53,599 --> 00:02:55,599 the dog and flew to the East Coast. United had the dog. The 49 00:02:55,719 --> 00:03:00,120 CDC suggested two courses of action that United could take, return the puppy to 50 00:03:00,199 --> 00:03:05,000 China or leave him at SFO, but neither choice was going to end too 51 00:03:05,039 --> 00:03:07,919 well. The initial options were very grim I'll leave it at that, but 52 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:13,039 the team at SFO refused to accept a tragic fate for the dog, now 53 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:15,520 named Polaris, after the airline's business class, They decided to find a third 54 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:20,319 way. They contacted the company's governmental affairs team in Washington and San Francisco for 55 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:23,039 help. The staff lobbied for the CDC to reverse the ruling. The agency 56 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:28,840 granted Polaris a reprieve, but ordered a four month quarantine. During the four 57 00:03:28,879 --> 00:03:31,199 month quarantine, Polaris had to live on the airport premises. The staff built 58 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:36,240 him a makeship home in an airport office. The Canine Cave featured such top 59 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:39,840 flight amenities as dogbed toys, treats at twenty four seven babysitting. Towards the 60 00:03:39,919 --> 00:03:46,319 end of the journey, United transported Polaris to the La Quarantine Station first class, 61 00:03:46,520 --> 00:03:47,560 so we knew he'd be taken care of. He was so good for 62 00:03:47,599 --> 00:03:51,400 the entire ride down. He didn't bark at all. They reached out to 63 00:03:51,479 --> 00:03:55,120 the San Francisco SPCA. Lisa f. Fader is the chief of Rescue an 64 00:03:55,120 --> 00:03:59,560 animal welfare there and said, I've been working in animal welfare for twenty five 65 00:03:59,639 --> 00:04:01,360 years, counter a lot of situations that are unique and interesting. This was 66 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:05,919 a first for us. The rescue center received thirty five applications, then they 67 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:10,039 winnowed it down to the top five. They picked the winner's name out of 68 00:04:10,039 --> 00:04:14,360 a dog bowl. The winner William Dale, United pilot. He said, 69 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:15,399 I only hope we can do half as good a job as taking care of 70 00:04:15,439 --> 00:04:18,319 him as the United staff did. More than one employee said to me, 71 00:04:18,439 --> 00:04:23,680 you had better take good care of him or else. And now about this 72 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:28,279 one. Right before the weekend, Principal Jack Knack, great name Principal Knack 73 00:04:28,439 --> 00:04:31,319 was told that Friday was going to be a snow day in Appleton, Wisconsin. 74 00:04:31,639 --> 00:04:34,600 For Nack, it was the moment he'd been waiting for for years. 75 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:39,079 He'd been recording clips they would eventually edit together to make the big snow day 76 00:04:39,079 --> 00:04:43,879 announcement. He put out a parody set to the tune of Oldtown Road called 77 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:48,079 Official Richmond Appleton's Snow Day twenty twenty two. The video was shown as students 78 00:04:48,079 --> 00:04:53,519 in their classrooms Thursday afternoon. The video begins with Principal Knack fueling up a 79 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:56,879 snow plow, turning it on, and exiting from his garage onto a snow 80 00:04:56,879 --> 00:04:59,480 covered driveway. I'm not going to sing here, but the lyrics, Yeah, 81 00:04:59,480 --> 00:05:00,839 I'm going to say my plow through the old driveway, I'm going to 82 00:05:00,879 --> 00:05:04,000 snow blow out to the end of day. He told today. This was 83 00:05:04,040 --> 00:05:08,160 our first snow day, which is strange here in Wisconsin, first time in 84 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:10,879 two years. That's very surprising to me as well. So I've kind of 85 00:05:10,879 --> 00:05:13,720 been playing with this one for a while. It only took a couple of 86 00:05:13,759 --> 00:05:15,959 days in the scheme of things, but it was a two year project because 87 00:05:15,959 --> 00:05:18,800 we were just waiting for some snow to come. Nax revealed he actually finished 88 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:23,160 the parody last year, but he had to make some edits after the school 89 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:28,439 district changed superintendence. I told her I had her name in and I had 90 00:05:28,439 --> 00:05:30,839 to put in his name. I had to rerecord some things, even the 91 00:05:30,879 --> 00:05:32,240 last second because I kind of saw the storm come in and I'm like, 92 00:05:32,279 --> 00:05:34,759 hey, maybe we can finally share this. He's gonna work on a new 93 00:05:34,879 --> 00:05:36,839 video, he said, Old Town wrote is a good one. I don't 94 00:05:36,839 --> 00:05:41,399 know if I could top that one, but we'll see. That's your kidneys 95 00:05:41,439 --> 00:05:44,519 for today. I have a great day.